TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA)
-- Chief Rabbi of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Austria, Moishe
Arye Friedman says that the “Zionist regime is using the
Holocaust concept as a tool and weapon to silence people.”

In an
interview with the Mehr News Agency here on Saturday, October 6,
Friedman said “the root of the world’s problems is the existence of
the Zionist regime.”

The
chief rabbi was in Iran on an invitation from the Islamic Republic.

Following is an excerpt of the interview:

Q:
Would you please explain about your community’s activities?

A:
We are in a religious community, and our activities are actually
concentrated mainly and truly on exercising the religion only, by
being the followers of Prophet Moses. We are actually forbidden from
having any activities of political nature. But also similar to the
Islamic Republic of Iran, our activities are for human rights, for
world peace, resulting from a religious perspective.

Q:
Don’t you think that Israel’s behavior in the Middles East,
especially its treatment of the Muslims in the occupied territories,
would pose threats to Jews in other countries?

A:
When we talk about Israel, the catastrophe of Zionism is not only in
their state, it is the regime. The Zionist regime is not
concentrated only on the so called Israel, the Zionist regime is
actually in the most of the world. To march to Jerusalem, we mean of
course to physically be in Jerusalem, we have to wipe off the
Zionist regime.

The
Zionist regime includes the governments all over the world with
Zionist Jewish communities. When we say Jewish people we mean Jewish
people following Moses which we have around the world. Of course it
is very important to distinguish between Jewish people and those
Zionist people.

The
behavior of some of the countries is very irresponsible. For them
there is no difference between the Jews and the Zionists, and this
can lead to danger. It is different in the Islamic Republic of Iran,
which is going to the root of the problem, to find how it was
possible at all that such a regime came about. They went for example
to engage with the issue of Holocaust, to have the world free from
the Holocaust concept propaganda which is used as a tool for
committing crimes against humanity.

There
is a lot which has been done by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and
especially recently, I think it was in a responsible way.
Unfortunately we have to condemn those Arab regimes who are
tolerating Israel. And it seems they are not dealing in a
responsible way, and are even trying to misinform the public that
Zionism is actually representing the Jewish people, in order to
protect their interests and to keep their regime, and their
population is silent.

Q:
What about an abuse of Judaism by Zionists?

A:
Zionism is all about to humiliate the faith in God. Not only the
Jewish religion, but faith in God in all religions, mainly Islam.
They also have a great interest in driving the Christians, the
Catholic church, away from their traditional religions.

They
are uprooting the religion, trying to reduce historical elements,
and at the same time, when there are critics or people who are able
to independently research such a theme, they will try everything to
arrest them, to harm them, eliminate them, and that is their nature.
For that purpose they have always used the Holocaust concept as
their tool and weapon to silence people.

Jerusalem should be wiped off from the Zionists.

Q:
What does your community do to counter Israel or Zionism?

A:
I think in the circumstances in which I came here with my family to
Tehran could in practical terms state an example of the activities
we make against Zionism, condemning the crimes against humanity.

But we
have to deal with the problem by going to the root of the problem.
The root of the problem is that the world is actually confronted
with the Holocaust based on lies. We will have to get rid of the
Holocaust lies of the Zionist regime, there is no question about
this. All the media is silent about all the crimes committed by the
Zionist regime by using the Holocaust concept.

Q:
What’s your idea about Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that the West should
allocate a land to the Zionists so that they can establish their own
country there?

A:
The first thing which has to happen is the immediate and
unconditional return of the entire Palestinian refugees to their own
land. When I say unconditional, I mean without having the
precondition that they have to recognize the Zionist regime. The
Palestinians have to receive their rights without recognizing the
Zionist regime. By recognizing the Zionist regime we are having
contradiction with the Palestinians’ rights and the rights of the
Islamic world. We have to discuss not about the people who lived in
Palestine, but those who came from Poland, from Russia, and other
places. By using the Holocaust concepts they came to the holy land
to eliminate others. At the first step, they should return to where
they came from. I do not understand really the logic or the position
of the Europeans or the Americans for opposing the approach and
initiative of President Ahmadinejad, suggesting that the Zionists
should return to Europe or to U.S. because after all, the Europeans
are sacrificing their whole economy for those Jews, for the
colleagues and associates of those Israelis who are now in
Palestine. They are even sacrificing their own national security.
They are not willing to implement law and order against Jews in
their own state. So what is the problem for Jews to come there?
There is no problem.

As a
consequence of the Second World War, in a very unjustified way, at
least a third of Poland nowadays and at least 34 percent of the Zech
Republic for example is simply a German territory which they robbed
off unjustified, and they are not doing anything about that. So
there is no problem with giving the Zionist Jews some territories.

Q:
What do you think about President Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia
University, about Holocaust?

A:
The issues which President Ahmadinejad stated and the issues that
Iran’s leaders, Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei, have
mentioned, those issues were known before, but we are living in a
world that is shut by the horrific Zionist media domination. In fact
he managed to break those taboos. He had his mission there. Now the
world is starting to realize that the Zionist regime is not only
concentrated in the holy land. The root of the problems is actually
the Zionist regime elsewhere. The Zionist Jewish community is
extremely violent, they are even poisoning the American society. The
Zionist regime is leading them. Even they have their own police in
New York. A few thousand Jews in New York are able to have their own
police.

Q:
What is your opinion about Iran, and about the U.S. propaganda
calling Iran a terrorist state?

A:
I think it is the best thing and you should be proud that the
Zionist media, inside the United States, are against you. The more
they are trying to attack you, the more is because you are at a
better position. Do not be afraid of people who speak openly of
attacks, you should rather be afraid of those who speak nice to you.
No one in the world had expected the Islamic Republic to make such
achievements. The Iranian people are far too clever to fall into
such propaganda, and I think they are clever enough to realize that
this propaganda is the exact reason to stand firmly, and they do not
expect to receive cheers from the evil.

I think the Islamic Republic is the nation chosen by God for justice
and peace.

It
is usually said that "the first casualty in war is truth." To that
age-old maximum the New World Order has added something of its own.

'The second casualty of wars that do not end is reality.'

Today, the world is being treated to a global display of this fact from
Annapolis, Maryland. Over forty countries are attending a farce of major
proportions that is meant to finish fogging over the war-crimes of the
last fifty years, with no end in sight. Their goal is to stretch a
mosquito net of platitudes across the entire Middle-East, while changing
absolutely nothing that matters in that war-torn hell.

Israel says it wanted this conference and that they are serious about
improving the lives of the Palestinian people. Yet none of their crimes,
their settlements and borders, their walls, or their medieval denials of
food, water, fuel, medicine or freedom for the Palestinians will even be
discussed. Palestine is their Apartheid version of ethnic cleansing, in
a half-century of prison camps and murder, mega-lies and deceits of
every kind-all with the same purpose: to exterminate the legitimacy of
the Palestinian people.

The West has been complicit, along with many of the other Arab nations
in the region as well as the EU and the UN in blocking any real
legitimacy for the people of Palestine. This huge-slice of Doublespeak
has largely failed to convince most of the people of the world, and
because of the resoluteness of the people of Palestine-this 'problem' is
still alive and angry!

Three parts of the problem were not invited to Annapolis. Iran, Hamas,
and Reality! Israel is bloodied from the ass-kicking they received from
Hamas in their criminal attack upon Lebanon and Hamas: which Israel
clearly lost for all the world to see. That loss also took a huge chunk
out of the reputation of Condoleezza Rice, when the US Secretary of
State told the world during Israel's attack upon Lebanon; that the time
had not come to call for a cease-fire. This led to the extension of
Israel's failed invasion from one week to thirty days and gave the USA a
black eye that was thoroughly deserved. (1)

The meetings at Annapolis are being held with the preconception that
Hamas and Iran are instigators of the problems in Palestine, when in
fact the major impediment to peace in the region, is and has always been
Israel.

Hamas won the free and open elections which the US demanded be held to
decide the political leadership of Palestine-and when the result was
Hamas-instantly Israel and the USA began to cut all aid and money to
Palestine, and to intensify the suffering throughout the camps.
Thereafter, Israel and the US conspired to engineer a coup within the
legitimately elected government of the Palestinian people ­ a coup that
only half-succeeded. It is this Palestinian half-leader that is
cooperating with Israel in this conference. So the leader of Israel, the
failed warrior against Lebanon and Hamas, will meet with the turncoat
'leader' of the West Bank, who claims to speak for all Palestinians.

These two losers agreed to meet with the decider who is claiming to have
suddenly decided, after seven years of stonewalling the entire situation
­ to now be seeking some kind of 'solution.' This hardly qualifies for
anything like a legitimate attempt to do anything but create more
excuses for those continued failures that will no doubt be blamed on the
absent parties to this dog-and pony show in Maryland.

Israel could immediately lift its self-imposed sanctions and provide
fuel, food, water and jobs to the Palestinians, as well as the freedom
to travel within what was their own country: but the world knows that
this will not happen, so why all the pomp and ceremony?

Apparently the boycotts against Israel are being noticed, and the
corrupted Arab governments are beginning to feel some heat over their
refusal to help the Palestinians ­ this meeting is intended to furnish
some cover for their failures to date, and maybe some kind of flimsy
'hope' for the future.

But whatever happens at Annapolis, will be no substitute for what is
actually done on the ground in Palestine. There must be consequences for
the crimes of Israel that go back so very many years: along with all the
universal laws they continue to ignore when it comes to their treatment
of an occupied people that have suffered immeasurably at the hands of
this century's version of the Nazi party.

The threadbare netting that is attempting to cover this contrived farce
seems to be very convenient in other ways as well: Because despite the
bluster and the chest thumping, the US is losing in Afghanistan and has
already lost in Iraq. They say exactly the opposite and point to this
new fact that has just been "accomplished."

"Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation
and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of
America'. Encapsulated in this document is the geo-political reality of
what the Bush/Cheney administration and their neoconservative and
Likudnik supporters had set out to achieve since the day George W. Bush
became President of the US.

Far from 'liberating' the Iraqi people from the 'yoke of tyranny' for
them to become a 'free and democratic' model to which all other Middle
Eastern states could aspire, which was the propaganda and rhetoric used
by the neoconservatives that convinced the Coalition of the Willing that
Iraq was a 'noble and righteous cause', the declaration instead condemns
Iraq to an endless occupation designed to enhance the power of the elite
puppets of Iraq, and to ensure that Iraq's resources remain firmly under
American control and enriching American controlled oil companies. In
short, the document is the instrument by which Iraq has effectively
become a colony of the US."(2)

If
Cheney-Bush think the above charade will survive the forced pullout of
US troops (the only member of the phony coalition still in Iraq), then
they really are as brain-dead as the whole world believes them to be.

The reality that is being banned from discussion in Annapolis can no
longer be shoved under the rug of global politics. In the real world our
money is no longer any good, and the US is struggling to avoid the
Depression that is on the way. The insiders in Washington know that
virtually nothing this government has attempted to do, has worked, and
they're voting with their feet. The people too are finally beginning to
see through the now threadbare flags that have covered so many cynically
criminal actions ­ that this pretence now at being part of the community
of nations, is nothing more than a last gasp to con the world just one
more time! (3)

One last thing: If this conference is meant to set up Iran and Hamas as
the next targets that are required to quench our thirst for pre-emptive
strikes: then the peoples of the countries represented in these talks
will have to make their views known to their leaders-just as US citizens
must begin to scream aloud about what has happened to everything that
has been even touched by these international thugs that have hijacked
this nation, in full view of a disapproving planet!

Resignations and Impeachment proceedings would do far more for
Palestine, than this charade could ever possibly envision. But then
obeying the laws of this country was one of the very first victims of
the Cheney-Bush War-Upon-the-World ­ why would they change now!

The Media Calls him Al Qaeda, but his Jewish Father calls him Adam
Pearlman

By Curt Maynard

The CNN
article[1] is entitled “American al Qaeda: U.S. should convert to
Islam,” and if that wasn’t scary enough the article then quotes one of
the speakers on the alleged “Al Qaeda” tape, a Jew named Adam Pearlman,
“We invite all Americans and believers to Islam, whatever their role and
status in Bush and Blair's world order…Decide today, because today could
be your last day.” The article then quotes an alleged “expert,” on Al
Qaeda and terrorism, a woman named Laura Mansfield, who says, “the time
reference could indicate an attack is near. Muslims believe that
non-believers should be given a chance to convert before they are
attacked.” Booga booga!

What
the CNN article never mentions is that Adam Gadhn, or “Azzam the
American,” as the media likes to refer to him, is in reality a Jew from
California named Adam Pearlman. I’m not kidding reader, I’m as serious
as a heart attack, Azzam the American is a Jew. CNN isn’t the only
negligent news agency, not a single one of the television networks have
mentioned Gadahn’s/Pearlman’s pedigree, not one. The only news source I
am aware of that has mentioned the fact that “Azzam the American” is
Jewish, was the LA Times and the Washington Post, and then only in the
most cryptic manner.

According to Xymphora, a very credible Internet blog that cited/sourced
the Times and Post articles, the Times noted in a “characteristically
coy” manner:

“In
1995, at 17, Adam Gadahn moved out of the family's Winchester home, his
father said, because ‘he wanted out of the country and wanted to be in
the city,’ where he lived with relatives in Garden Grove.[2]”

Xymphora then presents what is referred to as the details of the case,
provided by the Washington Post, which the LA Times conveniently
neglected to mention and that was exactly who these relatives were.

“While
living with his grandparents in suburban Santa Ana, he made his first
trip to the nearby mosque in 1995. He introduced himself as Yahya - the
Arabic name for John the Baptist, revered as a great prophet in Islam.”

That’s
right reader, Gadahn/Pearlman’s “relatives,” were actually his
grandparents. Now here’s the interesting part, Pearlman’s grandfather
was a sitting board member on the Anti-Defamation League, a notoriously
anti-Gentile organization that has historically attacked anything and
everything that could in any way be considered Christian, wholesome,
virtuous, honorable, etc… The ADL is the primary force behind the
assault on Mel Gibson,[3] anytime anyone utters what could in any way be
perceived as anything less than pro-Jewish, Abraham Foxman, the Director
of the ADL, immediately begins a well orchestrated smear campaign,
designed to do one thing, force an apology, which can then be spun by
the ADL into an admission that whatever errant individual they have
targeted was wrong and probably anti-Semitic for saying whatever it was
that “offended,” the ADL.

In a
past essay I noted:

“In
reality, the ADL is nothing more than a political arm of organized world
Zionism. It is essentially an organization that is designed to smear the
reputation of those that dare question the motives of Zionism and often,
individual Zionists acting out of sheer selfishness or on behalf of
their co-ethnics. The ADL has the ear of government, the judiciary and
law enforcement, it has managed to insert itself in these venues by
claiming to represent the underdog, which is generally understood to
mean minorities in our present day and age… The ADL engages in
defamation, in fact it has mastered the art of defamation – it can and
does defame anyone that attempts to bring attention to issues that
organized Zionism wants kept under wraps. Interestingly, Foxman and the
ADL aren’t in the least bit hesitant to engage in this type of
disingenuous behavior, in fact they do so in the open, relying on the
media, which is disproportionately owned, operated and managed by Jewish
Zionists to convey to the world the ADL’s goal while at the same time
suppressing the League’s defamatory techniques.”[4]

Nothing
has changed of course, the media continues its subterfuge, that is why
Adam Gadahn’s true background remains unknown to the vast majority of
Americans, the media refuses to tell viewers that Adam Gadahn, “Azzam
the American,” is in reality a Californian Jew with a penchant for
“death metal,” music[5] that just happened to “convert,” to Islam, and
become an important player in Al Qaeda, so important in fact, that Al
Qaeda’s number Two, Ayman al-Zawahiri himself, introduces “Azzam the
American,” in the latest Al Qaeda taped threat.[6]

"In the past, I have argued that Zionism is a protection racket and
conspiracy against Jews. Today, I will suggest they have suppressed
normal Jewish cultural/spiritual expression and hijacked the Jewish
people to serve their perverted cause.

"Before Zionists took over the US government, they took over the
American Jewish community and made it their instrument." ....

"A country that illegally occupies land and colonises it against well
defined international laws and statutes, a country that illegally raids
ships in international waters, a country that illegally kidnaps people
from sovereign countries, a country that illegally hijacked airliners, a
country that illegally holds thousands of people in its prisons, a
country that built itself on the misery of the rightful owners of the
land, a country that has unleashed tonnes of ordinance on civilians and
their infrastructure, a country that is not a signatory to NPT, a
country that refuses to allow IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear
facilities, a country that clandestinely built nuclear weapons, a
country that...hey Tom what's the size limit of comments on your
website?

"Where is the world condemnation? Where are the calls to boycotts, UN
sanctions, ultimatum, threats, anything? The silence is deafening.